Closed Python-Exoproject closed 1 day ago
It's the same as our rip, so no reinstall required, I think.
I've repacked the game.
It no longer whas one install for the World Pack and one for the regular, which means there is now a user note explaining how to switch the graph sets within the game.
Interesting, there is no Music in the Sound Canvas selection. Not sure if this was the case in the previous setup.
I tested using General Midi from the game installer instead and that worked so not sure why the SC55 driver isnt working. Maybe it didnt work before either and we were using the GM option previously as well?
@Python-Exoproject The previous setup did work with SC-55. This is a problem with the new one.
I know that the exodos option for SC55 worked, but my suspicion is that behind that exodos option we may have been using the General Midi option from the games installer.
Pretty much same same so GM is a fine option to pick as a fix for the problem now occurring, but if we can confirm that previously we were using the game installers SC55 option then something strange has happened. If that is the case all I can think of is that maybe the new install from the combined CD pack had a broken SC55 driver? But I think its more likely hat we had used the games GM driver
Ok I dug up my kids portable with exodos 6 on it to see what it was using before we updated the game in WIP and confirmed my suspicions.
The Sound Canvas driver is buggered, its a zero kb file (music.com) and we used the General Midi game install selection for the sound canvas option, which as I said above is perfectly fine and we have done that for many games with stuffed or no SC55 specific driver.
In case this ever comes up again I will also note here that we use the GM driver for Transport Tycoon Deluxe as well for the same reason.
When you are looking at this to fix the SC55 option @exoscoriae please also make sure that all three sound options are using the sbpro driver and not the sb16 driver. That was a change we made ages ago to utilise the dual opl stereo ability of the sbpro card and why the conf is set to use sbpro. If the game driver is the sb16 one it results in very quiet fx as per #3027
switched fx to sb pro.
switched sc to gen mid drivers
repacked
This is for the original version, not the Deluxe version we also have in the collection.
Discord user Corsedonk noted that the tutorials dont work. @SmilingSpectre found it was due to files not named correctly. To fix rename all the
DEMOxEA.DAT
files renamed toDEMOxAA.DAT
He also found a copy of the combined Tycoon and Worlds expansion CD release at https://www.old-games.ru/game/6744.html which might be worth adding\fresh installing from